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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2016

Overexpression of an Arabidopsis cysteine-rich receptor-like protein kinase, CRK5, enhances abscisic acid sensitivity and confers drought tolerance.

Kai Lu, Shan Liang, Zhen Wu, Chao Bi, Yong-Tao Yu, Xiao-Fang Wang, Da-Peng Zhang

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kai LuCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Shan LiangCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Zhen WuCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Chao BiCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yong-Tao YuCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Xiao-Fang WangCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China zhangdp@tsinghua.edu.cn wangxf@biomed.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Da-Peng ZhangCenter for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China zhangdp@tsinghua.edu.cn wangxf@biomed.tsinghua.edu.cn.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) have been reported to regulate many developmental and defense process, but only a few members have been functionally characterized. In the present study, our observations suggest that one of the RLKs, a membrane-localized cysteine-rich receptor-like protein kinase, CRK5, is involved in abscisic acid (ABA) signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana Overexpression of CRK5 increases ABA sensitivity in ABA-induced early seedling growth arrest and promotion of stomatal closure and inhibition of stomatal opening. Interestingly, and importantly, overexpression of CRK5 enhances plant drought tolerance without affecting plant growth at the mature stages and plant productivity. Transgenic lines overexpressing a mutated form of CRK5, CRK5 (K372E) with the change of the 372nd conserved amino acid residue from lysine to glutamic acid in its kinase domain, result in wild-type ABA and drought responses, supporting the role of CRK5 in ABA signaling. The loss-of-function mutation of the CRK5 gene does not affect the ABA response, while overexpression of two homologs of CRK5, CRK4 and CRK19, confers ABA responses, suggesting that these CRK members function redundantly. We further showed that WRKY18, WRKY40 and WRKY60 transcription factors repress the expression of CRK5, and that CRK5 likely functions upstream of ABI2 in ABA signaling. These findings help in understanding the complex ABA signaling network.

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Abscisic AcidArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsDehydrationElectrophoretic Mobility Shift AssayEscherichia coliNicotianaPlant Growth RegulatorsPlants, Genetically ModifiedProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReceptors, Cell SurfaceTwo-Hybrid System TechniquesAbscisic AcidArabidopsis ProteinsCRK5 protein, ArabidopsisPlant Growth RegulatorsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesReceptors, Cell SurfaceABI2abscisic acidCRK5drought tolerancereceptor-like kinaseWRKY18WRKY40WRKY60.

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